Latin America has long been a strong market for Adamson touring loudspeaker systems, and recently a wave of permanent installations have been taking place, including a notable one featuring Adamson at CEAD (Centro Evangelista de las Asambleas de Dios/Evangelistic Center of the Assemblies of God) in the tiny Central American country of Honduras.
CEAD, founded 14 years ago, is headed by Pastor Miguel Montoya and his wife Jacky, with the sanctuary offering seating for 2,600 and a total capacity of up to 5,000 who gather at two weekly services.
The largely volunteer staff and Pastor Montoya had long been concerted about the quality of their services, and sought an upgraded sound system. Daniel Fernandez, contract technical support at Adamson Latin American distributor All Music, coordinated directly with CEAD’s lead technician, Fausto Bourdet, to come up with a working, affordable design, and then to install it. Volunteers also stepped up to support the system installation.
The new system is headed by main left and right flown arrays, each made up of two Adamson SpekTrix 5-degree enclosures joined by two more SpekTrix W 15-degree under hang enclosures, along with a single center array of three SpekTrix and three SpexTrix W modules. These are joined by two individual flown subwoofer arrays, each with dual SpekTrix Sub modules.
The positioning and splay of the arrays was calculated with Adamson Shooter modeling in order to optimize coverage, particularly to the very farthest seating regions.
Coverage is bolstered to the balcony by Adamson Point 8 compact loudspeakers on delay, with more Point 8’s also provide underbalcony fill as well as front fill. On the front platform, monitoring is supplied by six Adamson M212 low-profile wedges.
Eight Lab.gruppen FP+ Series 10000Q amplifiers and a single FP7000 amplifier drive all loudspeakers. Main system digital signal processing is XTA – one DP448 is a applied to the left/right Spektrix mains, while a second DP448 drives the SpekTrix center cluster, front fills and under balcony fills. An analog processor retained from the previous system is devoted to the stage monitors.